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This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
17For paragraph 1 of that Schedule substitute—
“Preliminary
1(1)In this Schedule—
“film” includes any record, however made, of a sequence of visual images that is capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture;
“film production company” has the same meaning as in Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Finance Act 2006 (see section 32 of that Act).
(2)For the purposes of this Schedule each part of a series of films is treated as a separate film, unless—
(a)the films form a series with not more than 26 parts,
(b)the combined playing time is not more than 26 hours, and
(c)the series constitutes a self-contained work or is a series of documentaries with a common theme,
in which case the films are treated as a single film.
(3)References in this Schedule to a film include the film soundtrack.
(4)For the purposes of this Schedule a film is completed when it is first in a form in which it can reasonably be regarded as ready for copies of it to be made and distributed for presentation to the general public.”.
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